Putting the "I" in IHY: The United Nations Report for the International Heliophysical Year 2007

Putting the “I” in IHY This book is about international cooperation. It demonstrates how the power of scientific imagination and investigation can bring together people form all continents in almost all countries around the globe. In presenting this impressive result, we can understand, how much unifying force the quest for understanding our universe and using outer space for that purpose have. Astronomy is far away from being a “political” area of science. But is has enormous political eff...